Idi Amin, one of the most evil men to have lived on planet earth killed an estimated 500,000 Human beings. This blog is dedicated to honoring his victims. The bodies of most of Amin's victims were clandestinely disposed of or mutilated beyond recognition, never to be recovered by their families. The vast majority of the victims are unidentifiable for this reason. If your loved one was liquidated put their details in any comments section.

Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Father Clement Kiggundu, Munno Editor, was murdered in January 1973. His body was found burnt in the wreckage of his car. He died around the same time Mr Kalema disappeared, plus others like Dr Sembeguya,Jolly Joe Kiwanuka, Paul Bitature

Immediately after 1971 coup d’etat, Idi Amin hosted journalists and gave a bull to Rev.Fr.Clement Kiggundu, for exposing excesses of Obote l regime. In reply, Kiggundu told Amin, that the relative tolerance under Obote regime allowed him to expose those excesses. He prayed that Amin should do better. But when Munno Newspaper continued exposing detention of civilians in military barracks which provoked Amin operatives to burn Father Kiggundu inside his car in Namanve!

Ahmed Katerega

Newvision Journalist and member of UAH

Father Clement Kiggundu, the editor of the Catholic newspaper Munno in Kampala, decided to travel to Masaka, and told his driver to wait for hin in his office. When he did not arrive the driver called the priest's house in Kisubi, 23 Km away along the Kampala-'Entebbe road. Another priest answered that Father Kiggundu was not in the house and that he had not come back the night before. Very much concerned, his colleagues began to telephone around. They also telephoned the archbishop of Rubaga, but in vain. About 3pm, the telephone rang in the newspaper office. An unfamiliar voice said that a red peugeot, similar to the one used by the preist had been found in Namanve forest. All members of the editorial staff rushed to the spot and found the car burnt to a shell. About 15 yards from the vehicle there was a body, a horrifying sight. Although it was half-burnt, they succeeded in identifying the priest from a piece of a clerical white collar and the shoes he was wearing. They took Father Kiggundu to Mulago Hospital where the autopsy revealed that before setting fire to the car his murderers had strangled him. A bullet was found lodged in his chest. The day before his death, Father Kiggundu had visited the parish priest of Lueza and told him "I feel that they are pursuing me; now, they are about to take me."

Why was the editor of Munno killed so savagely?" The common explanation is that when Amin decided to expel all indians from the country, Father Kiggundu had the courage to write in the newpaper that it was an unjust decision and against some individuals with Ugandan citizenship. Among them there were not only businessmen, but also children, elderly people and the sick. The newspaper wrote; "it is like in South Africa."

A former minister in Amin's Cabinet declared later on that Father Kiggundu was killed and burnt in his car by killers hired by Amin. This was because he had had the courage to publish in his newspaper the complaints and the protests of the women whose husbands had mysteriously disappeared or had been publicly tortured. These women had organized a conference in Kampala in November 1972 at which they had criticized the government for the repeated episodes of violence that were perpetrated and remained unpanished. They had also demanded that an explanation should be given for the disappearance of so manyh innocent people. Munno had given voice to these protests. From the office of the President, Father Kiggundu was told to stop writing. But the fealess priest carried on despite warnings and threats by govenment.

Former Presiden of the Uganda Guide Post and businessman, shot after acquittal in court in front of nearby Y.W.C.A Hostel. (His advocate Ssebunnya was imprisoned and badly tortured.)

How Obura Killed Samson Dungu.

Perpetrators of such heinous crimes such as the former deputy head of the notorious Public Safety Unit (PSU) Kassim Moses Obura were after the fall of the regime in 1979, caught up in the cob-web of justice and could not survive the hangman’s noose.Obura had, according to reports, brutally killed a famous Kampala businessman.

Obura appears in courtShortly after he was arrested on October 13, 1980, Obura appeared in the Kampala High Court presided over by Justice Benjamin Odoki to answer a murder charge levelled against him.

Obura was accused of murdering Samson Dungu a Kampala businessman. His former immediate boss at PSU and co-accused Ali Toweli at the time of death was still at large when Obura came face-to-face with justice in the courts of law.

Throughout the court proceedings, Obura faced a total of 21 witnesses, who pinned him on the murder charge before he was sentenced to death.

Prosecution On October 29, 1980, Obura faced state witness Enos Sebunya, 38, who testified against him. Sebunya is now a practising lawyer based in Toronto, Canada. He told court that on November 23, 1973, Obura, using his pistol shot in the back and killed the hand-cuffed Dungu. Before shooting Dungu, he told him to face the wall, Sebunya told court.

Dungu was a co-owner of the famous Delite Cinema in Kampala, the court heard. And after Dungu, Obura ordered Sebunya and two other prisoners to load Dungu’s dead body onto the police Land Rover, Sebunya testified before court. The state witness had earlier told court how he and Dungu were arrested from Buganda Road Magistrate’s Court and YMCA premises respectively by the PSU men after a shooting incident.

While Dungu was bundled into the boot of a white Mercedes-Benz, Sebunya was forced into a Land Rover and taken to Naguru PSU headquarters, where Ali Toweli ordered Sebunya to remove his shoes, jacket and tie and reportedly started beating him.

Sebunya further told court that shortly before Dungu was killed, he heard him cry out for mercy as he screamed: “Obura do not do it. Let someone else do it. You are my brother-in-law”. Court records reveal.

Another witness Lameck Muwanga, 37, a brother of the deceased, told court that upon his brother’s arrest, he raised Shs54,000 and gave it to Obura to release Dungu.Although Obura had asked for Shs55,000, he accepted the given money and released Dungu; but one week later he was rearrested and charged with stealing Shs54,000 from Delite Cinema. Muwanga an accountant with the Delite Cinema told court.

Obura’s lawyer Protazeo Ayigihugu on November 14, 1980, admitted before court that his client released Mubiru and Senkuba after receiving Shs54,000, but added that it was to settle the matter with Lt Brown Ondongo who had arrested Dungu and others – and that when Dungu was re-arrested, Obura advised the deceased to get a lawyer.

Dungu’s co-accused A. Mubiru and M. Senkuba both employees of Delite Cinema and Topista Namusisi, a Grindlays Bank cashier, were also crossed-examined by the defence counsel in connection with the same forged cheque and other documents at Delite cinema.

Other former prisoners at the PSU who testified against Obura were Fred Kabuuka who said he saw Obura shooting Dungu dead, Makumbi, and Dungu’s father who told court that Obura had threatened to kill his son if he did not plead guilty to the charge put against him by the PSU.

Obura sentenced to hang On January 22, 1981, Obura was sentenced to hang by the then Kampala High Court Judge, Justice Benjamin Odoki. While delivering judgment, Justice Odoki told Obura that he was satisfied with the prosecution witnesses and assessors that he had maliciously and unlawfully killed Dungu. Before Odoki sentenced Obura, he asked him if he had anything to say.

Speaking in English Obura said: “My Lord, as from the beginning, you have heard all the evidence. I have nothing to say but I still maintain my innocence.”

Wednesday, 15 February 2012

He hailed from Akokoro. Akokoro is found in Maruzi County, Apac District.Chief magistrate of lira was killed in a very painful fashion. He was tied behind a military vehicle and dragged on the street in broad day light till he expired. It happened in December of 1972. He dragged in broad day light and people were watching. (Source of information withheld).Amin's ruthless Research boys were dominated by Nubians, Kuku, Aringa, Lukoro and kakwa, from Southern Sudan and West Nile.

Friday, 3 February 2012

Col Omoya was killed in Mbarara in freak accident in 1968. Omoya was driving from the barracks 4 miles outside Mbarara taking Lance Corporal Tulio Lam to Mbarara hospital. A truck hit the car and Omoya was seriously wounded but was not dead. He spent three days in Mbarara Hospital without and any critical care provision and died. In 1969 Lance Corporal Tulio Lam who was the passenger in the car Omoya was driving was poisoned with methanol (industrial alcohol) which looks like Uganda waragi. All known witnesses were subsequently killed or died.

"In January, 1973 you said of LT.-COL. Toloko: "When Lt.-Col. Toloko was Comnmanding Officer of Boro and Tororo, there was a lot of misunderstanding and disappearance of people including the District Commissioner of Bukedi. . . . Since Lt.-Col. Toloko was brought to the headquarters to be under close observation there is now peace in Tororo."

Although it can be acknowledged that Toloko was indeed responsible for the disappearance of many people, the fact remains that when you found out all about him, you never put him on trial for his crimes. Instead you transferred him to General Headquarters for "close observation" . A few months later Toiako was dragged away from the Grand Hotel, Kampala, screaming for help against what he called "dangerous men who are going to kill me". Toloko was never put on trial for his crimes, he was simply killed. Despite your past statements on the disappearances, and despite the people who have been condemned to death, and executed, for allegedly causing the disappearance of people in Uganda, you have none the TRANSITION 49 less appointed a j~~dicicaol mmission to "inquire into the disappearances" . No doubt, you hope that thecommissioner will blame somebody else for, or at least exonerate you from these crimes.If you appointed not one but 10 "judicial commissions" to inquire into the disappearances, they would not be able to exonerate you. Nor would they be able to serve a.ny useful purpose as long as you remain in power since, as all Ugandans know, you are the'main culprit. The only commission that could be of use would be one charged with responsibility for assessing compensation to be paid to the thousands of Ugandans who have been rendered widows and orph.ans as a result of the reign of terror."

January 1971, Brigadier suleiman Hussein, the army Chief of Staff, was captured in Kampala, taken to Luzira Prison and beaten in front of correctional officers. His head was cut off and taken to idi Amin, who is believed to have kept it in ta fridge for a night...

On March 5, 1976, a student of the Faculty of Law at Makerere University, Paul Serwanga, was shot dead by an army captain who had developed an interest in his (Serwanga) girlfriend

BY FRED GUWEDEKKO, 5 JULY 1998Uganda: 1976: Idi Amin becomes 'Dr'

Kampala — President Amin addressed Makerere on March 8, 1976 over the shooting of law student Paul Sserwanga in Kampala. After the address, State Research agents and military policemen arrested three suspected student leaders of the anti-Amin demonstration staged the previous day.

The security officers demanded for the ring leaders of the demonstration that had been chanting anti-Amin slogans. Students sent a message to Idi Amin through the chairman of West-Nile Makerere Students Association, Oman Kokale, of Lumumba Hall that they were to march to Amin's command post if their three colleagues were not released. The three were immediately released but military police with State Research agents then appeared at Makerere to arrest Kagata Namiti, his roommate Sabiti, Opoka-Okumu and Bugeni-Bwolya.

(a classmate of Wanume Kibedi at school) was Manager of the Kabale branch of Barclays Bank when he was liquidatedin September 1972. The only cause for his murder was that he refused to advance a car-loan to a soldier. Hisexplanation that the loan applied for was beyond his limit as branch manager was not accepted. He wasdragged away from the bank in the full view of bank employees, to be murdered in cold blood. Later theassassins took his trousers and shoes back to his family to show that he had been "finished".

Thursday, 2 February 2012

On March 5, 1976, a student of the Faculty of Law at Makerere University, Paul Serwanga, was shot dead by an army captain who had developed an interest in his (Serwanga) girlfriend. The next day, 4,000 university students took to the streets in Kampala calling for the overthrow of President Idi Amin. They were later joined by 30,000 city residents in this protest march.

A week later a Kenyan student at Makerere, Esther Chesire was arrested at Entebbe airport by agents of the dreaded State Research Bureau counter-intelligence agency just before she boarded a flight to Nairobi. She had been booked on the flight with her friend and fellow Kenyan Sally Githere. Chesire was never seen again. Whether there was any connection between Chesire and Serwanga or if she was indeed his girlfriend was never certain. Had she been an eyewitness at Serwanga's murder, and therefore had to be silenced? Was she the ringleader of the students who had called for Amin's ouster without realising the danger in such outspokenness tempted fate? The Kenyan government pressed Ugandan officials to launch an inquiry into Chesire's disappearance and possible death.

Theresa Nanziri Bukenya the warden of Africa Hall at Makerere University, the hall that Chesire resided in, was arrested by security agents. She was eight months pregnant. She had refused to testify before the commission assigned to investigate Chesire's disappearance. Bukenya's beheaded body was dumped near the Africa Hall grounds the next day. Source: monitor.co.ug Chesire was said to be a relative of Kenya's then vice president and later president, Daniel Arap Moi. Her unexplained disappearance at the hands of Uganda's intelligence agents caused tension between the two countries. Following the disappearance of Chesire, it is said that Amin's intelligence agents mooted many and offered flimsy explanations to cover up the girl's whereabouts and one of them being that she 'never reported back' for studies at the beginning of the term. Refused to conspire Behind the scenes, the security agents were trying to force Nanziri to carry this lie to the commission.

Nanziri, a staunch catholic with high moral value is said to have openly told off the agents and insisted she would tell only the truth. Chesire had reported at the beginning of the term and signed into her hall's registration book.

With Nanziri's pending testimony, the regime would run out of excuses and face even more diplomatic embarrassment and possible charges on crime against humanity. In the 7th month of her pregnancy, Nanziri, a brilliant and inspirational mathematician who had gallantly fought off many attempts by unruly Amin soldiers to kidnap and abuse female students by providing ample security lights around the hall knew that this time she was headed for a show down with the regime. She could not betray her conscious and Chesire by lying to the very commission that was supposed to find her fate. Nanziri argued that by lying to the commission, she would not only do it on behalf of the regime that was intent to murder every one considered its opponent, but also that her lie would effectively end the commission's proceedings since the girl would be considered never to have been in the country in the first place.

Nanziri never made it to the commission. She was picked a day before and murdered in cold blood at the banks of River Ssezibwa. It is reported that the residents who lived near the river heard her cries as she begged for mercy. She was 37 and just married to Achilles Bukenya, who now lives in South Africa. Nanziri weds Bukenya at Saint Augustine's, Makerere. Grief filled campus According to Dr. Musoke, Nanziri's murder sent shock waves in the entire university community, particularly to female students who considered her a symbol of bravery before the regime while at the same time reminding them that no one was safe from it. "The university was so cold. Gloom hovered all over us and most of us girls felt really orphaned that day. It was a horrible scene seeing two bodies-Nanziri's and her babies' lying in the main hall," recalls Musoke who was a first year student then.